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All the pressure being exerted on the healthcare industry during this period of unprecedented change is giving strategists a lot to consider as the model of care evolves. One of the biggest challenges is how providers can offer a high level of personalized care in a cost-effective manner using the IT tools that are currently available.

All the pressures being exerted on the healthcare industry during this period of unprecedented change is giving strategists a lot to consider as the model of care transforms. Among the major issues is how providers can offer a high level of personalized care to populations of patients in a cost effective manner using the information technology tools that are currently available.

The Internet is a double-edged sword. On one hand, there's little doubt that too much time spent online contributes to increasingly sedentary patterns of behavior. On the other, it offers a wealth of information and programs designed to help people lose weight.

In efforts to spur more transparency in the realm of healthcare costs, which many say have far too long remained shrouded in mystery, the Department of Health and Human Services has released cost data for 30 hospital outpatient procedures.

Nearly half a billion dollars were raised in venture capital funding for health information technology in the first three months of 2013, according to Mercom Capital Group, which touted it as "record quarter."

CIOs from three of Boston's elite hospitals discuss the role health information technology has played in responding to the two-part bombing that stopped the Boston Marathon in its tracks on April 15. The horrific tragedy sent hundreds of gravely wounded runners and bystanders to hospitals, where communication and coordination proved critical to ensuring top patient care.

Remember the good old days on "ER," "St. Elsewhere" and "Chicago Hope" where doctors and nurses rushed up and down hospital corridors, shouting orders, looking for charts and saving lives in the nick of time? Times have changed.

In the results released Nov. 28, 103 hospitals that Leapfrog had given a "C" or lower in its first round of ratings in June got an "A" in the updated Hospital Safety Score, based on more recent data and a slightly tweaked methodology.

MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (the "Company" or "MMR") today announced that while Superstorm Sandy pounded the East Coast, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued another health information technology patent to MMR. U.S. Patent No. 8,301,466, entitled "Method and System for Providing Online Records," was issued in the wake of the hurricane and one year in advance of the government's Meaningful Use requirement that patients be provided access to their personal health information online through a Personal Health Record or other form of patient portal by 2014. The Company also announced that this week it begins the process of court-ordered proceedings against Surgery Center Management, LLC ("SCM") under a $30 million Settlement and Patent License Agreement with SCM (the "SCM License"), of which the Company claims a minimum of $10 million is now due. Ted Ward of the law firm Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP ("Liner Law"), who represents the Company on patent licensing and infringement matters and on the SCM case, is also in the process of contacting hospitals and other healthcare professionals regarding the enforcement of the Company's intellectual property rights and opportunities to license the technology. "The Company has a written and executed agreement with SCM that is fully integrated and provides that SCM is to pay the Company $30 million, $5 million per year. We fully expect the Company to prevail in this matter. Further, because SCM has breached the terms of the SCM License Agreement, the Company will also protect its rights in Federal Court by pursuing claims for patent infringement against SCM," said Mr. Ward.

MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCQB: MMRF) (the "Company" or "MMR") today announced that less than one month before scheduling of court-ordered arbitration proceedings against Surgery Center Management, LLC ("SCM"), the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued another health information technology patent to MMR. The Company is in its second year of a $30 million license agreement with SCM for which the Company claims a minimum of $10 million is now due. Ted Ward of Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP ("Liner Law"), who represents the Company on patent licensing and infringement matters, is in the process of contacting numerous hospitals and other healthcare professionals regarding the enforcement of the Company's intellectual property rights and the opportunity to license the technology.

MMRGlobal, Inc. MMRF -0.60% ("MMR") today announced that it is already in the process of delivering the second group of 25 MMRPro systems pursuant to an agreement with a reseller of medical products and services to healthcare professionals as announced by the Company on October 1, 2012. The contract calls for an initial 75 units, of which the first 50 will have been delivered by the end of this quarter and the remaining 25 in the first quarter of 2013. Starting in the second quarter of next year, the agreement calls for the reseller to purchase or license a guaranteed minimum of 100 additional MMRPro systems per quarter over the life of the three-year contract, which represents a minimum of $5 million to $16.8 million in revenues in addition to $1,050,000 for the first 75 units. MMR plans on issuing a joint press release as early as next week with additional details announced leading up to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 8-11 and a planned press conference at HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans in March.

"We spent lots of effort and dollars to implement EMRs and tools like those, but at the end of the day, the real value comes from how we're going to mine the information and use it," says Darren Dworkin, CIO of Cedars-Sinai Health System.

4medica has announced that it will incorporate MMR's patented MMRPro and MyMedicalRecords systems into its Integrated Electronic Health Record (4medica iEHR®) to create Communications Gateway, an EHR platform for secure, HIPAA-compliant inbound/outbound faxing. 4medica provides the industry's leading cloud clinical integration platform and solutions. MMRGlobal is a provider of Personal Health Records (PHRs) and electronic document management and imaging systems for healthcare professionals.

MMRGlobal, Inc. has announced that it has agreements in place to launch the Company's health IT products and services in Europe. MMR plans on installing its MMRPro document management and imaging system in St. Helens Hospital in the United Kingdom (www.sthk.nhs.uk). As a result of the Company's existing relationships and agreements with Kodak distributors, Chartis and others, MMR is expanding in the UK and France, which will also include its MyMedicalRecords Personal health Record (PHR).

View a quick summary of the results of a healthcare mobility survey about top priorities, investments and mobility strategies being implemented by healthcare providers. See how organizations are implementing changes to address:
Cost reductions, while improving access to care.
Reform mandates and financial penalties.
Aging populations and chronic diseases Learn More

In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion about how to engage patients in their care. Patient engagement has always been considered a good thing in practices and health care organizations. Today it is vital to the business of delivering care. Learn More

The 2014 State of Value-Based Reimbursement is a national opinion research study of 464 payers and providers, conducted by ORC International, and commissioned by McKesson Health Solutions. The study clearly documents a transition from a volume-based model of reimbursement to models based on measures of value. Both payers and providers project that value-based reimbursement will overtake fee for service by the year 2020. But the study also reveals significant challenges, particularly in technology and physician buy-in, to fully implementing these models. Learn More

Where and how they store their data is of particular interest to healthcare organizations these days — especially given the tremendous growth and interest in Big Data and data analytics. View this infographic for a look into how healthcare is growing in the cloud. Learn More

When Adventist Health wanted a mobility solution to keep their workforce connected and productive while on the go, they turned to the experts at PC Connection, Inc. for help selecting and deploying a new mobile platform. Learn More

The dangers of data breach make for great headlines: data held for ransom, financial fraud, medical identity theft. But despite the risks of a breach, the most immediate threat in most security incidents is failure to comply with regulatory requirements. More

Ponemon's recently published 2015 Study on Privacy & Data Security of Healthcare Data makes one point crystal clear: healthcare organizations must do more to protect sensitive patient information from the wide variety of data breach threats. More

As we envision the next generation of electronic tools, support for team-based care with handoff management and closed-loop communication among the stakeholders will be the most important new features. More